Improvement in shears for cutting flowers



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JOSEPH W. BARBOUR, F WINOOSKI FALLS, VERMONT,` ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ELISHA ALLEN, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHEARS FOR CUTTING FLOWERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all `whom `it may concern Bn it known that I, Josnl'u W. launot'u, ot

Winooski Falls, iu the county of Chittenden and State oi' Vermont, have invented a new and improved Shears for Cutting Flowers, Pruning, die.; and I do hereby declare thatithe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the salue, reference heilig had to the accompanying;` drawing,r forming part ot' this specification, in whichm Figure l represents a perspective riew of my iluproved shears. l

Figure 2 is a. transverse section of' the saine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding,r parts.

This invention has for its object to so construct shears for the cutting of Bowers, herbs, &c., and for pruning purposes, that the pieces cut will be held in said shears and not allowed to drop.

The invention consists in the application of a pair of rubber clamps to the cutters of a pair of shears, so thatsaid clamps will retain and hold the flower, branch, or other piece cnt by the shears.

A A in the drawing represents the two cutters o' a pair of shears, a being their pivot, and B B their handles.

Upon each `cutter is secured a block or plate, b, which has its inner edge set back of' theeutting-edge, as shown.

A strip of rubber, C, is set into the inner edge of the plate b, and has, or may have, a.- corrugated or roughened face, as shown. If desired, the plates b may be contiuuatons ofthe handles B, the cutters A beiner secured to their lower sides.

Yhen the shears are used for cutting liowcrs, tc., the rubber strips or clamps will retain the pieces cut oil', as is clearly indicated in fig. 2. The flowers canthns be preserved from injury, and the handling ot such as have thorns is made unnecessary. The rnbber plates may, if desired, be applied in any other suitable manner, and leather, or other equivalent ma terial, may be used in place of the rubber.

Haring thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pateut- The shears, containing the elastic plates or pieces C, for retaining the llowers or other things cnt hy them, substantiallyY as set forth.

JOSEPH \V. BARBOUR.

Witnesses:

PETER LECLAIR. G. M. DUNCAN. 

